Having a seven-foot reptile curled around her neck does not seem to faze Jaylene Johns. Instead, she rather enjoys the occasional neck massage her snake Thumbelina gives. But ask her to handle a frog and you might get a different reaction....

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One of Africa's most endangered mammals, the Grevys zebra is a peculiar type of zebra. While its bigger and more regal than the mountain zebra or the plains zebra, its stripes are unique to each zebra. Just like human beings have unique fingerprints, each Grevys zebra has a different stipe pattern. ...

You can buy a lot of stuff online: food, clothes, technology, even animals.
The practice of reselling pets using buy and sell websites like Gumtree is becoming .
This has prompted calls for the practice to be better regulated....

Over the past few years, Australia has lost the Christmas Island pipistrelle, the Christmas Island skink and the Bramble Cay melomys - the first mammal in the world to have been wiped out by human-caused climate change. Has the creation of the government's threatened species strategy and a ...

The dragons of Brisbane live on islands just like the finches that Darwin observed on his Galapagos voyage. In those islands the dragons are isolated into completely human-made ecosystems with leaf blowers, fertile garden beds, human derived food, pesticides and mowers. Theyre in an ...